SOUTHFIELD, Mich.,– Family members of Tevin Crosby, Juan Guerrero and Javier Jorge-Reyes who were killed in the ISIS inspired Orlando, Fla. shooting at Pulse Nightclub in June 2016, filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday, Dec. 19, naming Google, Facebook and Twitter as defendants for providing material support to the terrorist group ISIS. The lawsuit asserts…
LOS ANGELES – The Trevor Project have announced that Facebook will be honored with the 20/20 Visionary Award and Ingrid Nilsen will receive the Trevor Digital Innovator Award at TrevorLIVE Los Angeles Dec. 4. TrevorLIVE LA, which will be special guest-directed by Chris Folkens, is an irreverent evening of comedy and music to help raise awareness…
Facebook reports that 800,000 people have come out as gay this year on the social media site. In addition, not only has the total number of Americans who have come out on Facebook risen dramatically, but so has the number coming out each day. As the chart below demonstrates, the number of people on Facebook…
Today, just days after the introduction of the historic Equality Act in Congress, five new major American companies announced their support for comprehensive, federal LGBT non-discrimination protections. Each of these new leading corporations – American Airlines, Facebook, General Mills, Google and Nike demonstrated their belief that all LGBT Americans should have the protections from discrimination…
Twenty years ago as a teenager ChadMichael Morrisette was bullied for being gay. The Daily Grind reported that Morrisette described his school days as: “During junior high and high school I was bullied for being who I am. I was bullied for being gay. I was bullied for being little. I was bullied for every…
Social networking giant Facebook today rolled out a new, inclusive feature that will allow individuals to use their own words to describe their gender identity. The change builds on the “Custom Gender” option introduced last year by Facebook, which provides users a list of more than 50 gender identities they can choose from to describe…
TOKYO — From GayAsiaNews comes a story about Japan’s first lady, who has not only taken part in the annual Tokyo gay parade but gone on to write about equality and anti-gay discrimination on her Facebook page. Akie Abe wore a white suite and stood on a float with a drag queen, as some 3,000…
I don’t know about you but Facebook has morphed from a forum where I can read about the mundane and idiosyncratic activities of my friends around the world to a kind of event invite clearing house. Every day I receive invitations to do, or see, or join one thing or another, and these are from…
http://youtu.be/In3q9kiVFbM In this year of marriage equality, up pops a Facebook post of one sister’s gift to her gay brother on his wedding. This sister got an old Bert and Ernie pop-up book and reworked with pictures of her brother, husband and their entire wedding party. The post states: “My brother finally got the chance to marry the…
Puerto Rico-native and openly gay featherweight boxing sensation Orlando Cruz made news again Wednesday when he publicly proposed to his long-time boyfriend Jose Manuel on Facebook. Speaking in Spanish, Cruz declared, “Through the ups and downs we’ve had, you’ve always been there for your number, as one says. I’m a little bit nervous, but that aside, I…
